Rockies set MLB record while trailing for 29 consecutive games

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The Colorado Rockies made a move Tuesday in the three-team race for baseball's worst team.

The Chicago White Sox opened the season with just three wins in their first 25 games, and the Miami Marlins have the worst record in the National League at 7-24, but the Rockies may have accomplished something even more dismal than either, trailing in a record 29 straight games to begin a season on their way to a 7-22 record.

The Rockies finally broke their spell at 31 games Friday night after leading wire-to-wire and defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-2.

Colorado surpassed the record set by the 1910 St. Louis Browns, who trailed in their first 28 games that season. The Rockies, along with the Marlins and White Sox, remain on pace to lose more than 120 games. The Tuesday loss came after Colorado led Miami 5-0 entering the bottom of the ninth.

Starting pitcher Ryan Feltner was three outs from his first complete game — and in line for a rare "Maddux," a shutout in fewer than 100 pitches. But Feltner allowed a single to Vidal Bruján, plunked Christian Bethancourt and surrendered an RBI double to Luis Arraez. The floodgates opened, and the Marlins scored five runs before walking off the Rockies in the bottom of the 10th.

"I just feel like I let the team down," Feltner told reporters in Miami, according to the Associated Press. "I got to finish that ninth inning out. Never been in a position like that before."

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